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The Mother of All Disciplines?
David S. Rosenblum Dean, School of Computing National University of Singapore
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The Mother of All Disciplines? David S. Rosenblum Dean, School of Computing National University of Singapore Academia on 3 Continents Singapore Singapore Universities National University of Singapore Founded in 1905 as a medical school
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Singapore
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Singapore Universities
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National University of Singapore
✓Founded in 1905 as a medical school ✓Research-intensive beginning in the 1990s ✓Tenure-track system in 2000 ✓37,000 students
(27,000 undergrad + 10,000 postgrad)
✓Top-ranked in Asia
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NUS and Globalization
✓Many undergrads spend time overseas
NUS Overseas Colleges University- and faculty-level internships Student exchanges with many universities “A leading global university centered in Asia, influencing the future”
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NUS Faculties
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Business School School of Computing Faculty of Dentistry School of Design & Environment Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Law Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health Faculty of Science Yale-NUS College Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
University Scholars Program NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
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School of Computing
✓ Established in 1998 from Faculty of Science ✓ 2 Departments:
Computer Science, Information Systems
✓ 111 Academic Staff (Tenure-Track & Teaching Track) ✓ 115 Research Staff ✓ 1650 Undergraduate Students ✓ 180 Masters Students ✓ 370 PhD Students ✓ S$10 million+ in research income per annum
(and we’re hiring!)
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#8 in the World #1 in Asia
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Constraints and Challenges
- Demographics
- Constraints from Ministry of Education
Undergraduate population of international students is decreasing to 15% overall, 30% for SoC
- Unpopularity of computing among Singapore students
- Slowly emerging IT industry
- Slowly emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Low priority of computing in strategic research funding
- Review processes for grant proposals
- No regional research funding body
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A Golden Age for Computing
✓Our field now underpins virtually every
facet of human endeavor
✓This creates tremendous opportunity for
collaboration in research and education
✓And the research collaborations need not
be “service-oriented”
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Example
Big Data Analytics for Healthcare
- Understanding and predicting disease in Singapore, by integrating
modeling and analyzing a vast range of patient data
✓ 90% of high school graduates are nearsighted ✓ Average age of heart failure is 8 years younger in Singapore
than in New Zealand
✓ Diabetes among heart failure cases is 55% in Singapore vs
27% in New Zealand
✓ 11.3% of Singaporeans have diabetes, growing to 1 million
people by 2050 Obesity a major factor for Chinese and Malays but not for Indians
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Example
Modeling and Predicting Disease Propagation
- Exploitation of mobile devices for location
tracking and for data management tasks
✓Spread of dengue fever in Singapore
Two-thirds of cases have unknown geographic origin
✓Spread of MRSA in Singapore hospitals
Singapore hospitals have a 5% conversion rate among inpatients
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Making It Happen
- Cross-faculty special-interest groups
- Seed funding from faculties involved
- Seed funding from NUS ODPRT
- Strategic funding from MOE and NRF
Must be done top-down and bottom-up
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